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The Rockbox ManualforIaudio M5rockbox.orgMay 17, 2015

Contents 10D.18.List Title (.sbs only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185D.19.Changing Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 12. Plugins 10012.1.20. RobotfindskittenFigure 12.17.: RobotfindskittenIn this game, you are robot (#). Your job is to find kitten. This task is

Chapter 12. Plugins 101completed, the game level increases, making the blocks fall faster. If the pile of blocksreaches the ceiling, the game is over.

Chapter 12. Plugins 102The classic sliding puzzle game. Rearrange the pieces so that you can see the wholepicture, or switch to number tiles if you li

Chapter 12. Plugins 10312.1.25. Snake 2Figure 12.21.: Snake 2 – The Snake Strikes BackAnother version of the Snake game. Move the snake around, and ea

Chapter 12. Plugins 104Sokoban may be used as a viewer for viewing saved solutions and playing externallevel sets with the .sok extension. Level sets

Chapter 12. Plugins 105the name may not be familiar, the game itself certainly is. This is due in no small partto Microsoft’s inclusion of the the gam

Chapter 12. Plugins 106Key Remote Key ActionSelect ShootUp ThrustLeft/ Right Turn left/rightDown TeleportPlay Pause gamePower Quit12.1.29. StarFigure

Chapter 12. Plugins 10712.1.30. SudokuFigure 12.26.: SudokuSudoku in Rockbox can act as both a plugin and a viewer. When starting Sudoku fromthe Brows

Chapter 12. Plugins 108Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down /Left / RightMove the cursorSelect Change number under the cursorLong Select Constantly changing

Chapter 12. Plugins 109The gameUse the control keys of your worm to navigate around obstacles and find food. Wormsdo not stop moving except when dead.

Chapter 1. Introduction 111. Introduction1.1. WelcomeThis is the manual for Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source firmware replacementfor a growing number

Chapter 12. Plugins 110Hungry: That’s the normal state of a worm. Worms are always hungry and want to eat.It is good to have a hungry worm since it me

Chapter 12. Plugins 11112.1.32. XoboxFigure 12.28.: XoboxXobox is a simple clone of the well known arcade game Qix. The aim of the game is tosection o

Chapter 12. Plugins 112Key Remote Key ActionUp Up and JumpDown Down and CrouchLeft / Right Move Left and RightAction and FireMenu12.2. Demos12.2.1. Bo

Chapter 12. Plugins 11312.2.2. CreditsThe credits plugin scrolls the entire list of the names of all the Rockbox contributors afterdisplaying the Rock

Chapter 12. Plugins 11412.2.4. DemystifyFigure 12.31.: DemystifyDemystify is a screen saver like demo.Key Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Volume Down/ V

Chapter 12. Plugins 115Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down Forward /RewindIncrease / decrease number of flamesLeft Volume Down Toggle flame typeRight Volume

Chapter 12. Plugins 11612.2.8. MosaiqueFigure 12.34.: MosaiqueThis simple graphics demo draws a mosaic picture on the screen of the player.Key Remote

Chapter 12. Plugins 117KeysKey Remote Key ActionSelect Toggle filled / curve / plotRec Toggle whether to scroll or notLong Select Toggle drawing orient

Chapter 12. Plugins 118KeysKey Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Scroll through albumsUp / Down Scroll through track listSelect Enter track list / Play al

Chapter 12. Plugins 119Rebuild cache. Rebuild the PictureFlow cache. This is needed in order for PictureFlowto pick up new albums, and may occasionall

Chapter 1. Introduction 12main channel for Rockbox is #rockbox on irc://irc.freenode.net. Many helpful developersand users are usually around. Just jo

Chapter 12. Plugins 12012.2.13. SnowFigure 12.38.: Have you ever seen snow falling?This demo replicates snow falling on your screen. If you love winte

Chapter 12. Plugins 12112.2.15. VU meterFigure 12.40.: VU-MeterThis is a VU meter, which displays the volume of the left and right audio channels.Ther

Chapter 12. Plugins 122Viewer Plugin Associated filetype(s) Context Menu onlyShortcuts .linkChip-8 Emulator .ch8Frotz .z1 - .z8Image Viewer .bmp, .jpg,

Chapter 12. Plugins 123“playing” it, the list will be shown even if the file contains just one entry.If the list you are seeing is from shortcuts.link

Chapter 12. Plugins 124Chip8 Off 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E FKeyPowerUpLeftSelectRightDownSome places where can you can find .ch8 files:• The PluginCh

Chapter 12. Plugins 125Key Remote Key ActionUp Forward Display keyboard to enter textSelect Mode Press enterRec Rec Open Frotz menu (not available atM

Chapter 12. Plugins 126Show Playback Menu. From the playback menu you can control the playback of thecurrently loaded playlist and change the volume o

Chapter 12. Plugins 127Key Remote Key ActionUp/ Down Volume up/ Volume downRight/ Left Skip 3 seconds forward/ backwardPlay Pause/Resume playbackPower

Chapter 12. Plugins 128Settings Open Settings submenu – see below.Resume playback Return to playback screen.Quit mpegplayer Exit the plugin.Settings M

Chapter 12. Plugins 12912.3.8. MP3 EncoderThis plugin encodes a .wav file to MP3 format. The supported input format is uncom-pressed, linear PCM with 1

Chapter 2. Installation 132. InstallationInstalling Rockbox is generally a quick and easy procedure. However before beginningthere are a few important

Chapter 12. Plugins 130Default keysKey Remote Key ActionUp / DownLeft / RightDirection keysPlay A buttonRec B buttonSelect StartHold switch Cycle disp

Chapter 12. Plugins 13112.3.13. Text ViewerFigure 12.42.: Text ViewerThis is a Viewer for text files with word wrap. Just open a .txt or .nfo file to di

Chapter 12. Plugins 132ISO-8859-11 (Thai), CP1256 (Arabic), ISO-8859-9 (Turkish), ISO-8859-2 (Latin Extended), CP1250 (Central European), SJIS (Japane

Chapter 12. Plugins 133Scrollbar Toggle the horizontal scrollbar for the current mode. If the filefits on one screen, there is no scrollbar and this set

Chapter 12. Plugins 134Figure 12.43.: The select bookmark menuGlobal Settings Set the default settings for the text viewer. The setting items are thes

Chapter 12. Plugins 135pressing any key. A file called theme_remove_log.txt is created in the root di-rectory of your player listing all the changes.Re

Chapter 12. Plugins 13612.3.15. VBRfixThis function scans a VBR (Variable Bitrate) MP3 file and updates/creates the XingVBR header. The Xing header cont

Chapter 12. Plugins 137ZXBox menuVkeyboard. This is a virtual keyboard representing the Spectrum keyboard. Controlsare the same as in standard Rockbox

Chapter 12. Plugins 13812.4. Applications12.4.1. Alarm ClockThis plugin is an alarm clock, which resumes a paused song at a given time.Key configuratio

Chapter 12. Plugins 139Benchmarks can be resumed if you accidentally load a plugin, or turn off your player,so long as the log file battery_bench.txt is

Chapter 2. Installation 14Fonts. Rockbox can load custom fonts. The fonts are distributed as a separate packageand thus need to be installed separatel

Chapter 12. Plugins 14012.4.3. CalculatorFigure 12.46.: CalculatorThis is a simple scientific calculator for use on the player. It works like a standar

Chapter 12. Plugins 141You can select what day is first day of week by the setting First Day of Week inthe menu.Key Remote Key ActionLeft / Right /Up /

Chapter 12. Plugins 142• Done. Player 1 starts in paused mode.While playingThe number of the current player is displayed on the top line. The time bel

Chapter 12. Plugins 143Key configurationKey Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Volume Down/ Volume UpCycle through modesUp / Down Forward /RewindCycle throu

Chapter 12. Plugins 144at the lower left. The Counter, if enabled, is displayed at the lower right. The secondhand, if enabled, is displayed along wit

Chapter 12. Plugins 145in the plain text file .rockbox/rocks/apps/disktidy.config that is user-modifiableto allow custom entries to be added.The asteris

Chapter 12. Plugins 146Selecting Reset Keybox from the main menu will delete the current list of passwordsand a new, empty list will be created the ne

Chapter 12. Plugins 147The time tag must be in the form [mm:ss], [mm:ss.xx], or [mm:ss.xxx] where mm isminutes, ss is seconds, xx is tenth of millisec

Chapter 12. Plugins 148ControlsKey Remote Key ActionUp / Down Volume Up /Volume DownVolume up/down.Left Rewind Go to beginning of track, or if pressed

Chapter 12. Plugins 149Playback Control. Show the playback control menu.Time Offset. Set an offset for the time tags for the lyrics currently in use.Tim

Chapter 2. Installation 15Development Build. The development build is built at each change to the Rockboxsource code repository and represents the cur

Chapter 12. Plugins 150Key Remote Key ActionPower Exit pluginRec Rec StopLong Select Rec StartSelect Mode Tap tempoLeft / Right Volume Down/ Volume Up

Chapter 12. Plugins 151Navigation The display indicates the part properties and position in track as such:Metronome Track---------------"Interlud

Chapter 12. Plugins 152Symbol MeaningX emphasized beat (Tick)x normal beat (Tock). silent beatSome examples:default: 0 4/4 120 Xxxxrockon2: 0 4/4 120

Chapter 12. Plugins 15312.4.14. Pitch DetectorWith the Pitch Detector, you can play a note on a musical instrument, and the pluginwill tell you what n

Chapter 12. Plugins 154Folder List Editor KeysKey Remote Key ActionSelect, Right orPlayForward Delete selected folderLong Select Long Mode Bring up th

Chapter 12. Plugins 155with the first option). Then, use the onscreen keyboard to type in the supply voltageand, if selected, the custom forward curren

Chapter 12. Plugins 15612.4.19. Text EditorThis plugin allows you to view and edit simple text documents on your DAP. You canview files by using Open w

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 15713. Advanced Topics13.1. Customising the User Interface13.1.1. Customising The Main MenuIt is possible to customise the

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 158Note: Advanced Users Only: Any BDF font should be usable with Rockbox. To convertbfrom .bdf to .fnt, use the convbdf to

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 159• ‘fgshade’ and ‘bgshade’ are numbers in the range 0 (= black) to 3 (= white).• ‘font’ is a number: 0 is the built-in s

Chapter 2. Installation 16Installing the bootloaderThe Iaudio M5 has a built-in bootloader which performs the firmware update and canalso access the ha

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 160• All characters not preceded by % are displayed as typed.• Lines beginning with # are comments and will be ignored.Not

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 161%sthat point. The lines will scroll if this text does not fit in the viewport.%sThe user font is used, the foreground c

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 162%t(1)%acWarning:;%t(.1)%Vl(b,20,30,50,50,1)%sNo album art found%scheck your filenames.This example checks for album art

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 163Conditional TagsIf/else: Syntax: %?xx<true|false>If the tag specified by “xx” has a value, the text between the “&

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 164%t Set the subline display time. The ‘%t’ is followed by either integer seconds (%t5),or seconds and tenths of a second

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 165Example on background image use:Example%X(background.bmp)The image with filename background.bmp is loaded and used in th

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 1661. Each setting must be on a separate line.2. Each line has the format “setting: value”.3. Values must be within the ra

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 167Reset Settings This wipes the saved settings in the player and resets all settings totheir default values.Note: You can

Chapter 13. Advanced Topics 16813.5.2. Anti-Skip BufferHaving a large anti-skip buffer tends to use more power, and may reduce your batterylife. It is r

Appendix A. File formats 169A. File formatsA.1. Supported file formatsIcon File Type Extension Action when selectedDirectory none Enter the directoryAu

Chapter 2. Installation 17directory of your player as in the manual installation stage. If your unzip program asksyou whether to overwrite files, choos

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 170B. Audio and metadata formatsB.1. Supported audio formatsB.1.1. Lossy CodecsFormat Extension NotesATSC A/52

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 171mance requirements.B.1.2. Lossless CodecsFormat Extension NotesAudio Interchange File Format .aif, .aiff Lin

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 172B.1.3. Other CodecsFormat Extension NotesAtari Sound Format .cmc, .cm3,.cmr, .cms,.dmc, .dlt,.mpt, .mpdSynth

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 173B.1.4. Codec featuresetFormat Seek Resume GaplessATSC A/52 (AC3) x xADX xAdvanced Audio Coding x x xMPEG aud

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 174B.2. Supported metadata tagsRockbox supports different metadata formats. In general those tag formats are ID3

Appendix B. Audio and metadata formats 175B.2.2. Featureset for codec specific metadataFeature Codec specific metadata (file extension)Embedded .bmp None

Appendix C. Album Art 176C. Album ArtRockbox allows you to put the album art, or another image related to the music on yourplayer to display it in the

Appendix C. Album Art 177The following characters will be replaced with an underscore (_) when looking foralbumtitle.bmp or albumartist-albumtitle.bmp

Appendix D. Theme Tags 178D. Theme TagsThemeing is discussed in detail in section section 13.2 (page 159), what follows is a listof the available tags

Appendix D. Theme Tags 179D.3. Information from the track tagsTag Description%ia Artist%ic Composer%iA Album Artist%id Album Name%iG Grouping%ig Genre

Chapter 3. Quick Start 183. Quick Start3.1. Basic Overview3.1.1. The player’s controlsThroughout this manual, the buttons on the player are labelled a

Appendix D. Theme Tags 180D.5. Additional FontsTag Description%Fl(’id’,filename) See section 13.2.4.D.6. Misc Coloring TagsTag Description%dr(x,y,widt

Appendix D. Theme Tags 181D.8. Information about the fileTag Description%fb File Bitrate (in kbps)%fc File Codec (e.g. “MP3” or “FLAC”). This tag can a

Appendix D. Theme Tags 182D.9. Playlist/Song InfoTag Description%pb Progress Bar. This will replace the entire line with aprogress bar. You can set th

Appendix D. Theme Tags 183• ‘start’ is the offset relative to the currently playing track for the playlist to displayfrom (0 the current track, 1 is th

Appendix D. Theme Tags 184D.14. Virtual LEDTag Description%lh “h” if the hard disk is accessedD.15. Repeat ModeTag Description%mm Repeat mode, 0-4, in

Appendix D. Theme Tags 185Number Screen1 Menus2 WPS3 Recording screen4 FM Radio screen5 Current Playlist screen6 Settings menus7 File browser8 Databas

Appendix D. Theme Tags 186D.19. Changing VolumeTag Description%mv(t) “v” if the volume is being changedThe tag produces the letter “v” while the volum

Appendix D. Theme Tags 187D.21. ImagesTag Description%X(filename.bmp) Load and set a backdrop image for the WPS. This image mustbe exactly the same si

Appendix D. Theme Tags 1881. Load and display the image /.rockbox/bg.bmp with ID “a” at 37, 109:%x(a,bg.bmp,37,109)2. Load a bitmap strip containing 5

Appendix D. Theme Tags 1892. Load albumart at position 0,20 and resize it to be at most 100×100 pixels. If theimage isn’t square, align it to the bott

Chapter 3. Quick Start 19detail in the following paragraph. Additional information for blind users is available on¸the Rockbox website at ZBlindFAQ.Th

Appendix D. Theme Tags 190D.23. Conditional TagsTag Description%?xx<true|false> If / Else: Evaluate for true or false case%?xx<alt1|alt2|alt3

Appendix D. Theme Tags 191D.25. Time and DateTag Description%cd Day of month from 01 to 31%ce Zero padded day of month from 1 to 31%cf A conditional f

Appendix D. Theme Tags 192Tag Description%XX(x, y,width, height,[options])Draw the specified tag as a barx: x co-ordinate at which to start drawing the

Appendix D. Theme Tags 193D.28. Other TagsTag Description%ss(start,length, tag[,number]Get a substring from another tag.Use this tag to get a substrin

Appendix E. Config file options 194E. Config file optionsSetting Allowed Values Unitvolume -73 to +6 dBbass -24 to +24 dBtreble -24 to +24 dBbalance -10

Appendix E. Config file options 195Setting Allowed Values Unitbidir limit 0 to 200 % screenscroll paginated on, off N/Ahold_lr_for_scroll_in_list on, o

Appendix E. Config file options 196Setting Allowed Values Unitdisable autoresume ifphones not presentoff, on N/ALast.fm Logging off, on N/Atalk dir off,

Appendix E. Config file options 197Setting Allowed Values Unitcrossfeed direct gain 0 to 60 0.1 dBcrossfeed cross gain 30 to 120 0.1 dBcrossfeed hf at

Appendix E. Config file options 198Setting Allowed Values Unitpeak meter dbfs on, off on: dbfs, off: lin-earpeak meter min 0 to 89 (dB) or 0 to 100 (%)

Appendix E. Config file options 199Setting Allowed Values Unitrec source mic, line, spdif N/Arec channels mono, stereo N/Arec mic gain 0 to 15 N/Arec

2Rockboxhttp://www.rockbox.org/Open Source Jukebox FirmwareRockbox and this manual is the collaborative effort of the Rockbox team andits contributors.

Chapter 3. Quick Start 20directory structure that is assumed by some parts of Rockbox (album art searching, andmissing-tag fallback in some WPSes) use

Appendix F. Menu Overview 200F. Menu Overviewinclude an overview of the menu structure hereThe Rockbox manual (version rUnversioned directory-150517)

Appendix G. User feedback 201G. User feedbackG.1. Bug reportsIf you experience inappropriate performance from any supported feature, please file abug r

Appendix G. User feedback 202G.2.2. Features we will not implementThis is a list of Feature Requests we get repeatedly that we simply cannot do. View

Appendix H. Credits 203H. CreditsPeople that have contributed to the project, one way or another. Friends!· Björn Stenberg · Linus Nielsen Feltz-ing ·

Appendix H. Credits 204Hand · Nick Lanham · Sebastian Hen-riksen · Martin Scarratt · KarlKurbjun · Tomasz Malesinski · An-drew Pilley · Matt v.d. West

Appendix H. Credits 205· Stepan Moskovchenko · John S.Gwynne · Brian J. Morey · Stijn Hisken· Bertrik Sikken · Karim Boucher· James Espinoza · Franz R

Appendix H. Credits 206· Delyan Kratunov · Purling Nayuki· Marek Salaba · Altay Oz · MarkBorgerding · Tobias Diedrich · AndrewEngelbrecht · Kevin Scho

Appendix I. Licenses 207I. LicensesI.1. GNU Free Documentation LicenseVersion 1.2, November 2002Copyrightc2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, In

Appendix I. Licenses 208A “Modified Version” of the Document means any work containing the Documentor a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with

Appendix I. Licenses 209ther is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following text that translates XYZin another language. (Here XYZ stands f

Chapter 3. Quick Start 21MenuFrom the menu you can customise Rockbox. Rockbox itself is very customisable. Alsothere are some special menus for quick

Appendix I. Licenses 210distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this Transparent copy willremain thus accessible at the stated locat

Appendix I. Licenses 211on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified Version as stated inthe previous sentence.J. Preserve the network l

Appendix I. Licenses 2125. COMBINING DOCUMENTSYou may combine the Document with other documents released under this License,under the terms defined in

Appendix I. Licenses 2138. TRANSLATIONTranslation is considered a kind of modification, so you may distribute translations of theDocument under the ter

Appendix I. Licenses 214CopyrightcYEAR YOUR NAME. Permission is granted to copy, distributeand/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Fre

Appendix I. Licenses 215I.2. The GNU General Public LicenseVersion 2, June 1991Copyrightc 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.51 Franklin Street

Appendix I. Licenses 216Terms and Conditions For Copying, Distribution andModification0. This License applies to any program or other work which conta

Appendix I. Licenses 217such an announcement, your work based on the Program is not required toprint an announcement.)These requirements apply to the

Appendix I. Licenses 218If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy froma designated place, then offering equivalent

Appendix I. Licenses 219reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor todecide if he or she is willing to distribute

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 224. Browsing and playing4.1. File BrowserFigure 4.1.: The file browserRockbox lets you browse your music in either of

Appendix I. Licenses 220and/or redistribute the program as permitted above, be liable toyou for damages, including any general, special, incidental or

Appendix I. Licenses 221‘show w’.This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certainconditions; type ‘show c’ for details.The

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 234.1.1. File Browser ControlsKey Remote Key ActionUp/Down VolumeUp/VolumeDownGo to previous/next item in list. If you

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 24Playlist. Enters the Playlist Submenu (see section 4.4.3 (page 35)).Playlist Catalogue. Enters the Playlist Catalogu

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 25Add to Shortcuts. Adds a link to the selected item in the shortcuts.link file. If thefile does not already exist it wi

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 26Key Remote Key ActionLeft / Right Rewind /ForwardMove the cursor on the virtual keyboard.If you move out of the pick

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 27that directory and all its subdirectories from scanning their tags and adding them to thedatabase. This will speed u

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 28Note: You may need to increase the value of the Max Entries in File Browserbsetting (Settings → General Settings → S

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 29change the display of the WPS.• Status bar: The Status bar shows Battery level, charger status, volume, play mode,re

Contents 3Contents1. Introduction 111.1. Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.2. Getting more help .

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 304.3.1. WPS Key ControlsKey Remote Key ActionUp / Down Volume Up /Volume DownVolume up/down.Left Rewind Go to beginni

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 31without being indicated.The scale: Between the indicators of the right and left channel there are little dots.These

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 32Playback SettingsThis is a shortcut to the Playback Settings Menu, where you can configure shuffle,repeat, party mode,

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 33PitchThe Pitch Screen allows you to change the rate of playback (i.e. the playback speedand at the same time the pit

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 34Directory. A playlist! One of the keys to getting the most out of Rockbox is under-standing that Rockbox always cons

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 35to an existing playlist and Add to a new playlist creates a new playlist containingthe selected track or directory.N

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 36Insert Shuffled. Add track(s) to the playlist in a random order.Insert Last Shuffled. Add tracks in a random order to th

Chapter 4. Browsing and playing 37the context menu and then move the blinking cursor to the place where you want thetrack to be moved and confirm with

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 385. The Main Menu5.1. Introducing the Main MenuFigure 5.1.: The main menuThe Main Menu is the screen from which all of the R

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 395.3. Recent BookmarksFigure 5.2.: The list bookmarks screenIf the Save a list of recently created bookmarks option is enabl

Contents 44.2.3. The Database Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.2.4. Using the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 405.5. DatabaseBrowse by the meta-data in your audio files (see section 4.2 (page 26)).5.6. Now Playing/Resume PlaybackGo to t

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 415.7.6. Manage SettingsThe Manage Settings option allows the saving and re-loading of user configurationsettings, browsing th

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 42Key Remote Key ActionUp / Down Volume Up /Volume DownSelect setting.Left / Right Rewind /RightAdjust selected setting.Play

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 435.11. SystemRockbox Info: Displays some basic system information. This is, from top to bottom,the amount of memory Rockbox

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 44• A file can be “run” (i.e. a music file played, plugin started or a .cfg loaded)• The file browser can be opened with the cur

Chapter 5. The Main Menu 45time data needs to be either “talk” to talk the time, or “sleep X” where X is thenumber of minutes to run the sleep timer f

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 466. Sound SettingsFigure 6.1.: The sound settings screenThe sound settings menu offers a selection of sound settings you may

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 47from the list and the maximum volume will be limited to the selected value all over thesystem.6.4. TrebleThis setting emph

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 48of one channel into the other. This has the effect of gradually centering the stereo im-age, until you have monophonic soun

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 49Most users will find the default settings to yield satisfactory results, but for the moreadventurous user the settings can

Contents 56.8. Crossfeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486.9. Equalizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 50In some ways the EQ is similar to the Bass and Treble settings described earlier, butthe EQ allows you to control the soun

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 51Key Remote Key ActionRight Forward Raises the highlighted parameter.Left Rewind Lowers the highlighted parameter.Up Volume

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 52Dithering adds low-level noise to the signal prior to throwing away the surplus bits,which gives the resulting signal a un

Chapter 6. Sound Settings 536.14. Auditory Fatigue ReductionHuman hearing is more senstive to some frequency bands. This setting applies additionalequ

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 547. Playback SettingsThe Playback Settings menu allows you to configure settings related to audio play-back.7.1. ShuffleTur

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 557.3. Play Selected FirstThis setting controls what happens when you select a file for playback while shuffle modeis on. If

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 56the track, moving to the next track in the playlist without user intervention. A man-ual track skip goes to the next tr

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 577.9. ReplaygainThis allows you to control the replaygain function. The purpose of replaygain is toadjust the volume of

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 58Pre-amp. This allows you to adjust the volume when replaygain is applied. Replaygainoften lowers the volume, sometimes

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 597.14. Cuesheet SupportEnables reading of cuesheet files for played tracks. If a cuesheet is found for a track,track mark

Contents 68.6.3. Sleep Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698.7. Bookmarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 7. Playback Settings 607.18. Rewind on PauseThis option rewinds the current track by a small amount whenever it is paused (notstopped). The am

Chapter 8. General Settings 618. General SettingsFigure 8.1.: The general settings screen8.1. PlaylistThe Playlist sub menu allows you to configure set

Chapter 8. General Settings 62Interpret numbers when sorting. As whole numbers enables a sorting algorithm whichis similar to the default sorting of,

Chapter 8. General Settings 63If Follow Playlist is set to No, when you enter the File Browser from theWPS, you will find yourself in the directory you

Chapter 8. General Settings 64this menu option again!LCD Mode. This setting lets you invert the colours of the display.Upside Down. Displays the scree

Chapter 8. General Settings 65Remote Scrolling Options. The options here have the same effect on the remoteLCD as the options mentioned above have on t

Chapter 8. General Settings 66Scale. Select whether the peak meter displays linear or logarithmic values. Thehuman ear perceives loudness on a logarit

Chapter 8. General Settings 67Disk Spindown. Rockbox has a timer that makes it spin down the hard disk after it isidle for a certain amount of time. T

Chapter 8. General Settings 688.5.5. Car Adapter ModeThis option turns On and Off the car ignition auto stop function.Car Adapter Mode. When using the

Chapter 8. General Settings 69Settings. Display the main settings menu.Recording. Start the player in the recording screen (recording does not start a

Contents 712.1.20.Robotfindskitten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10012.1.21.Rockblox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 8. General Settings 70Bookmarks are stored next to the directory or playlist they reference, in a file with thesame name as the directory or pl

Chapter 8. General Settings 71No Do not keep a list of recently used bookmarks. This also removes the RecentBookmarks from the Main Menu.Yes Keep a li

Chapter 8. General Settings 72If you intend to start a track from its beginning but notice that it was resumed, youcan press Left in the WPS to skip b

Chapter 8. General Settings 73Voice Directories. This option controls voicing of directory names. A voice file must bepresent for this to work. Several

Chapter 8. General Settings 74See ZVoiceHowto for more details on configuring speech support in Rockbox.The Rockbox manual (version rUnversioned direct

Chapter 9. Theme Settings 759. Theme SettingsThe Theme Settings menu offers options that you can change to customize the visualappearance of Rockbox.Br

Chapter 9. Theme Settings 76Status/Scrollbar. Settings related to on screen status display and the scrollbar.Scroll Bar. Allows you to choose where th

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 7710. Recording SettingsFigure 10.1.: The recording settings screenNote: To change the location where recordings are st

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 7810.4. SourceChoose the source of the recording. The options are: Microphone and Line In.10.5. ChannelsThis allows you

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 7910.9. Clear Recording DirectoryResets the location where the recorded files are saved to the root of your player’s dri

Contents 812.3.14.Theme Remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13412.3.15.VBRfix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 10. Recording Settings 80pointing to the right. There are two special values. The value Off turns the startcondition off. With this setting you

Chapter 11. Time and Date 8111. Time and DateTime related menu options. Pressing Long Select will voice the current time if voicesupport is enabled.Se

Chapter 12. Plugins 8212. PluginsPlugins are programs that Rockbox can load and run. Only one plugin can be loaded ata time. Plugins have exclusive co

Chapter 12. Plugins 8312.1.2. BlackjackFigure 12.1.: BlackjackBlackjack, a game played in casinos around the world, is now available in the palm ofyou

Chapter 12. Plugins 84BrickMania is a clone of the classic game Breakout. The aim of the game is to destroyall the bricks by hitting them with the bal

Chapter 12. Plugins 85the bottom line. To make things more difficult, the entire board is shifted down everytime a certain number of shots have been fire

Chapter 12. Plugins 86KeysKey Remote Key ActionDirection keys Move the cursorSelect Pick up / Drop pieceRec Change levelPlay Force playPower Show the

Chapter 12. Plugins 8712.1.8. DoomFigure 12.6.: DoomThis is the famous Doom game.Getting startedFor the game to run you need .wad game files located in

Chapter 12. Plugins 88Options Menu. This menu has the following options:Sound. Enable or Disable sound in DoomSet Keys. Change the game key configurati

Chapter 12. Plugins 89Playing the gameAfter installation of the wad files is complete you can start the game. more descriptionis needed12.1.9. FlipitFi

Contents 913.5. Optimising battery runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16713.5.1. Display backlight . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 12. Plugins 9012.1.10. GobanFigure 12.8.: GobanGoban is a a plugin for playing, viewing and recording games of Go (also known asWeiqi, Baduk,

Chapter 12. Plugins 91Mark Meaning+ There are nodes after the current node in the SGF tree.* There are sibling variations which can be navigated to us

Chapter 12. Plugins 92Game Info. The menu for modifying game info (metadata) of the current game. Thisinformation will be saved to the SGF file and can

Chapter 12. Plugins 93Idle Autosave Time. Set the amount of idle time to wait before automaticallysaving any unsaved changes. These autosaves go to th

Chapter 12. Plugins 9412.1.11. InvadroxFigure 12.9.: InvadroxInvadrox is a clone of the classic arcade game Space Invaders. Kill those pesky aliensbef

Chapter 12. Plugins 95Key Remote Key ActionSelect Mode PlayRec Rec Exit the game12.1.13. JewelsFigure 12.11.: JewelsJewels is a simple yet addicting g

Chapter 12. Plugins 9612.1.14. MazezaMFigure 12.12.: MazezaMThe goal of this puzzle game is to escape a dungeon consisting of ten “mazezams”. Theseare

Chapter 12. Plugins 97then the number of mines adjacent to the current square is revealed. The aim is to usethe information you are given to work out

Chapter 12. Plugins 98These need to be stored in the /.rockbox/pacman/ directory on your player. In theMAME ROMs collection the necessary files can be

Chapter 12. Plugins 9912.1.18. PongFigure 12.16.: PongPong is a simple one or two player “tennis game”. Whenever a player misses the ball theother sco